Equations for predicting height for elderly Mexican Americans are not applicable for elderly Mexicans

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 351-355

  Mendoza Nú̈ez, Victor Manuel ^a,c   Sánchez Rodríguez, Martha A ^a   Cervantes Sandoval, Armando ^a   Correa Muñoz, Elsa ^a   Vargas Guadarrama, Luis Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES;

PIERINAE;

EID: 0036250003     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.10029     Document Type: Article

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